Trump Is NOT Angry at Putin: Don’t Fall for the Kabuki Theater!
- john raymond
- May 28
- 3 min read
There’s a theater playing out before us—a performance calibrated for maximum confusion and minimum accountability. It is the false drama of Donald Trump being “angry” with Vladimir Putin. Analysts, pundits, and even some lawmakers are beginning to speculate that Trump has finally broken with the Russian autocrat. But let’s be absolutely clear: this is not a break. This is a cover story. This is a rerun of the same scripted misdirection Trump has used for nearly a decade. And falling for it now is nothing short of willful blindness.
Trump is not angry with Putin. He is playing a role, one designed to manufacture the illusion of conflict so that when rapprochement comes—as it always does—it appears genuine, even redemptive. This act is not new. This is the same cycle that played out after the Helsinki summit, after the bounty revelations, after every so-called “tough” word he’s ever offered about Putin. Every time, the act is the same: posturing, feigned outrage, a media swirl—and then nothing. No consequences. No action. No break.
In fact, Trump’s own public statements betray the ruse. On Truth Social, he all but admits that he has shielded Putin from repercussions—despite overwhelming evidence that Putin ordered bounties on American troops in Afghanistan, despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite election interference and attempted assassinations. Trump’s position isn’t changing. It’s being repackaged to deceive an American public that is more skeptical than ever but still vulnerable to a well-placed pivot.
Worse, this performance isn’t being sold by Trump alone. Republican figures like Lindsey Graham are helping launder the narrative. By treating Trump’s past relationship with Putin as merely misguided rather than traitorous, they reframe it into a policy experiment gone awry rather than what it was: a long-standing alignment with a hostile foreign power. This is normalization by soft language and omission.
What Trump is doing now is the same trick he pulled on May 8th—promising sanctions that never came, pretending toughness while doing everything possible to avoid holding Putin accountable. This is who he is. This is how he operates. And now, with a new act on the stage, he is trying to give Putin the cover he needs to regroup, manipulate negotiations, and escape consequences again.
It is coordinated. It is deliberate. It is a lie.
To fall for this is to fall for the exact thing we’ve been warned about for years. Trump is not a man of conviction—he is a man of calculation, of survival, of lies stacked upon lies. He has no loyalty to America. He has loyalty to power, and to those who enable and reflect it. Putin is one of those people. Always has been.
So when Trump feigns anger, know that it’s not real. When he performs the rift, know that it is not genuine. It is a lull in the narrative meant to clear the stage for his next act of service to Putin. He will give cover again. He will make excuses again. He will backtrack again. You can set your watch to it.
The shift from “Russia hoax” to “it’s okay they’re pals” is not accidental. It is gaslighting. It moves from denial to justification. It says: this betrayal is fine now. It says: don’t bother resisting. But the truth remains unchanged.
It was never okay. It will never be okay.
These men are not confused. They are abusers—of systems, of truths, of people. And the only way to deal with abusers is not to negotiate or explain, but to stand up. To call the lie what it is. And to reject the fake theater with every ounce of clarity we have left.
So no—Trump is not angry at Putin. He’s still performing. And anyone who buys this act is doing the enemy’s work for them. Don’t fall for it. Not again. Not ever.
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